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Medication Errors

"Medication Errors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medication Errors" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Medication Errors" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 452 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2008
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